From the Number 1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK, the story of a man who tried to create the perfect wife. A true My Fair Lady' set in the Georgian era.[...]

Winner of the Medical Journalists' Open Book Award 2005, this book is about John Hunter. Revered and feared in equal measure, Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. An inspiration for Dr Jekyll and Dr Dolittle, he was a maverick medical pioneer, and even anticipated the evo[...]

Explains how John Hunter, a brilliant but notorious surgeon, revolutionized surgical techniques and principles in eighteenth-century London, describing his contributions in the field of geology and evolution, as well as his development of innovative medical techniques and principles for successful t[...]